Journal box



A. `E. OSTRANDYER AND H. H. WILLIAMS.

JOURNAL BOX.

APPLlcAUoN FILED MAH.23.192|.

Patented May 9, 1922.

nir a 'mrs ALLEN E. OSTRANDER, 0F RIDGEWOGD, NEW J' .AND HEBERT H. WILLIAIVIS, OF BR-OOKLZN', NEWYORKASQGl\l0lR-S OF ONE-.HALF TO AM'ERECAN CAR-AND roUnnnY Gontran-fr, or New Yoan, ONE-HALF rro METROPOLITAN nnernaaarne Yoan, A conronarron or Yon-K.. f

Y., A CORPORA EON 0F NEVI JERSEY, AND

GOMPNY, OF BROOKLYN, NE

Y JOURNAL BOX.

maaien.

Specification of Letters lr'atent.

Patented May 9,1922.

I Application nled March 23, DLH..y Serial No. 454,763.

and State of New York, respectively, and

being citizens of the United States, have invented certainnew and useful mprovements in 'a lournalBorg of which the followingpis a full, clear,'and eXact description, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and to use the same, referencev being' had to the accompanying drawings, which illustratey the preferred form of the invention, though it is to be understood that the invention is not limited to the exact details of -construction shown and described, as itis'obvious thatV Various modifications thereof within the scope ot the claims will occur to persons skilled in the art.

In said drawings:

Figure 1 is a central vertical section of our improved journal boX; Figure 2Vis partlyV a top plan view and partly a horizontal section on the line 2-2 oit Fig. 3;

Figure 3 is partly a rear elevation and partly a vertical section on` the line 3-3 of Fig. 2; f

Figure 1 is a vertical section on the line 1*1 of Fig. 2;

Figure 5 is a Jfront elevation of the reenforcing member; and

Figure 6 is a section on the line 6 6 of Fig. 1. i

It is the object of our invention to provide an improved pressed metal journal boX that shall be of great strength and durability and can be manufactured at comparatively small cost.

ln the embodiment of our invention shown in the drawings, the boX comprises a pressed metal cellar 1.l a pressed metal top 2 having two of its edges bent downwardly and butt welded, as at 3, to the sides 4- of the cellar 1. The box is provided with corrugations 5 extending from the top to the bottom of the sides of the box and of' greater width at the bottom than at the top of the box. To the bottom 6 of the cellar 1 welds 7 secure a yoke 8 provided with openings adapted to receive the journal box 'bolts and having a recess adapted to receive the cellar 1 and yportions 9 adapted to engage in the corrugations so that stresses may be transmitted from oney to the other without danger of rupturing the welds 7. j

To reenforce the top 2 there is provided an inner reeuforcing member 10 having downwardly extending projections 11 that tit lie corrugations 5 and are adapted to serve as stops 'forthe journal brassn `The member 1`0is also provided with the downwardly eX- tending projections 12 adapted to serve as stops for the journal boX wedge/There. is

also provided an outerV reenforcing member 13 that serves as a yoke and is provi-ded with openings adaptedto receive the journal box bolts.y To securethe yoke' 13 "and reenforcing member 10 tothe box top 2 the yoke 13 is provided with a plurality of cylindrical projections 14, ofa length slightly greater than the thickness of the boX top 2, which are passed through openings in the box top 2 and engaged withv the member 10. An electric current of an amperage sufficient to heat the projections 14 is then passed between the members 1() and 13 and when the projections 14.- are heated to a welding teniperature the members 10 and 13 are subjected to pressure thus effecting' a plurality oi welds that firmlv unite the members 10 and .13 together and to the boX top 2.

The dust guard pocket comprises a sheet 15 provided with an opening toreceive the axle. the metal surrounding the opening being` bent outwardly and backwardly forming an annular frroove adapted to receive the in wardly bent rear edge of the boX top 2 and the edge of the corresponding opening formed in the rear wall 16 of the cellar 1. The sheet 15 is flanged on three sides, as at 17, and the flanged sheet 15 is slipped into a sheet 18 correspondingly flanged, as at 19, and havinglr an axle opening; therein, after which thev Hannes 19 are bent down over the flanges 1Zso as to secure the sheets 15 and 18 together. The dust guard is then slipped into the opening formed in the rear wall 16 of the cellar 1 and is held in place by en- Kagement with the top 2 when the top 2 is welded to the cellar 1.

that may be formed, integral With the 'Cop 2 or be formed separately and be secured to the topQ byrweldingas on the line 21.

l/Vhat We claimy is:

I l. A journal box comprising top and cellar sections3` inner and outei` reeiiiiorcing members secured to said top section and a dust guard pocket secured to said box by uniting` said top and cellar sections.

2. A journal box comprising top and cellar sections, a reenforcing member and a yoke secured to said top section and a yoke secured to said cellar section and recessed to receive said section.

3. A journal box comprising top and cellar sections and a dust guard pocket attached tosa-idl boX by having a member interlocked ond dust guard pocket member interlocked with said first member. 'Y

4. A journal boX comprising top and cellar sections, a dust guard pocket member secured to said box by uniting said top and cellar sections and a second dust guard pocket member interlocked with said first member.

Aijoiirnal boX comprising ai cel-lar scction having corrugations in its sides, a. top section welded to said cellar section, a yoke `carried by said top section and aninner reenforcing member Vtorsaid top section Welded to said yoke and having means engaging the journal brass.

6. A journal box comprising'a'top section and a cellar section Welded thereto and havsaid coriugations and serving as a stop for ing coriiigations in its sides, a yoke Secured 7. A journal box comprising top andL cel-- lar sections Welded together and inner and outer reeniorcing members for said top section welded together so as to be secured to said top, said inner reenforcing member hav- Ying means adapted tok serve as stops' for the yjournal brass and. Wedge. With said top and cellar sections and a sec- 8; Afournal boX comprising top and cellar sections` a yoke secured to saidcellar section and int-irlockingtherewith7 a reenfoi'cing yoke secured to said top section andan innei'jreenfoi'cing member securedvto-v said reent'orcing yoke and having stops for the journal brass. v l

In Witnessv whereof We have hereunto set our hands in the. presenceof two witnesses.

ALLEN- E. os,rfiiariimn.' iY HER-BERT WILLIAMS. lYitnesses: i y. r i i Y L.- VL Joran,

` Bassin D. Sirone. 

